By Aaron Wood Analyzing the habitats that are both prized as a fishery and an integral part of our broader ecosystem. By the time March 1st comes around I’m fiending in a way that has left my wife, friends, and coworkers wondering if it’s time for an intervention. While I’m not off selling plasma or…
Category: Fly fishing
The Sustainable Angler Podcast: NREL’s Sherry Stout
In this episode of The Sustainable Angler, I interview National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) Sherry Stout. NREL “advances the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation, and renewable power technologies and provides the knowledge to integrate and optimize energy systems” and Sherry is the Arctic Strategic Program Manager and Senior Research Engineer for NREL….
Guest Blog: An Angler’s Firsthand Account of the Impacts of Climate Change on Colorado Trout
The Fryingpan, Roaring Fork, and Colorado Rivers are each fly fishing destinations in their own right, with all of them supporting wild fish populations and legendary fishing. Whether you’re a 2 weight dry fly purist or an 8 weight streamer slinger, there’s a trout for you in one of these three Colorado streams. To me…
We are Stoked to Announce 2021 Sustainability 101 Workshop at Tailwater Lodge!
According to the IPCC we must halve global greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and be carbon neutral by 2050 to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change. However, we are already seeing the effects of climate change. For example, Hoot Owl Restrictions in Montana and multiple stream closures across the American West due to low…
Shyanne Orvis Becomes Colorado’s 1st Carbon Neutral Fly Fishing Guide
Climate change is one of the greatest threats to fish and fisheries on the planet, and according to the Intergovernmental Panel in Climate Change (IPCC), the world would have to curb its carbon emissions by at least 49% of 2017 levels by the year 2030 and then achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 in order to…
How the new film “Drop” Achieved Carbon Neutrality
Rick Crawford In my opinion, when it comes to climate change, there are too many films are hyper-focused on the doomsday scenario, whereas Drop, a Spruce Park Productions film, presented by Patagonia and Protect Our Winters with support from Yeti and Orvis takes a different approach by following a drop of water from the top…